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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicCaste census

Topic: Caste census

EWS quota is a bad law, it needs to go

Dilip Mandal -
The Madras High Court nixed EWS quota in NEET. Not only the Supreme Court, our Parliament too must revisit the EWS law.

The debate on caste census has forgotten Pasmanda Muslims again

Hilal Ahmed -
The political class, it appears, has eventually accepted Hindu-centric imagination of social stratification.

Upper caste networks of political parties are resisting caste census. But not for long

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd -
Telangana's project shows that caste census can benefit Dalits and OBCs. But parties like BJP and Congress are too busy with their Dwija networks.

Bihar most aware state on caste census — 56% want information released

Rajesh Jain -
We surveyed over 7,000 Indians from 10 states. The result? The fear of the BJP that caste census will upset some social groups is unfounded.

Caste-based headcounts won’t be enough. India needs a full-blown ‘caste census’

Rakesh Chandra -
Until the government machinery gets ready to conduct a full-blown caste-census, it could at least enumerate OBCs by including a caste column in Census 2021.

Caste census is important — whether you are for or against reservation

Yogendra Yadav -
If the support for caste census is political, so is the BJP’s opposition to it now.

India needs a caste census to see if we have conquered the social evil or merely hidden it

Kumar Atul -
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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